Military Chat

The Medal card was found by Marie Celeste - it has to be the right one - right regimental number and right regiment, although obviously his initial is C and not D

I think so too Annielaurie - if the o/u in Hudson/Hodson is distorted a C/D could possibly be unclear.

Perhaps Veronica could claify?

Oddly, at least 10 men in the RAMC have the regimental No 2260 - I wonder if numbers in that regiment were allocated differently to other regiments? eg by Company.

Looking at other Regt numbers together with RAMC, it does seem that the same numbers appear several times.

This is a very good site for info about Regimental Nos - it lists the dates numbers were allocated in each Regiment, so even if a Service or Pension Record can't be found, the approx. date of enlistment can be found in most cases.

http://armyservicenumbers.blogspot.co.uk/

DazedConfused

To have lost one medal roll index card relating to a family is unlikely but not impossible. To have three missing is improbable but, I suppose, not impossible. I see that the Medal Rolls themselves have been put online very recently in addition to the existing index cards. Perhaps if you put the names on here there may be some GR memebers coukld have a second go at this for you?

OOPS!

Hello again everyone. after reading again all your kind help I decided to invest in a magnifying glass. I can now confirm that the medal does belong to a C. Hudson. (Just had to get past the scratches etc.) Now I have to try & find out how it came into my side of the family. Also, the contact Kay suggested was able to tell me that Charles went to France on 27th. Feb 1915 & survived the war.
I will now continue serching in other ways.
THANKS EVERYONE.

Yes, that information is on the medal card I originally posted. Charles Hudson was disembodied 11/04/1919